readx; The two loose cannons were quickly erected on a high earthen hill. www.biquge.info In order to transport these two big guys weighing 400 pounds to the battlefield as quickly as possible, the artillery of the third and fourth battalions suffered enough. Originally, this kind of artillery was usually transported by mule carts, but this time the march was too urgent, and the battalion commander thought that the mule carts were too slow, so he simply asked the soldiers to run in groups of sixteen people and take turns carrying the cannons to run forward, and when they were tired, they immediately changed shifts; Ammunition is also delivered entirely by hand. Originally, according to the normal marching speed, they would have to arrive in Yangzhou more than a day later than Liu Quanzhong, but now they are only half a day late. The cost was that all the fighters were exhausted, and many of them sat on the ground as soon as they arrived, unable to stand up again.

However, it was all worth it, as only two of the latest weapons from Europe, which made their debut in the Battle of Kyoto, were delivered, but they played a decisive role in turning the tide of the war.

At this time, Liu Quanzhong deployed all the infantry and artillery around Tugangzi, the exhausted third and fourth battalions, and other infantry rested for a while, and the eighteen rapid-fire guns also reformed the artillery position, but they were not in a hurry to open fire. He himself climbed the earthen hill, pointed ahead and shouted, "Hit me!" ”

The gunners, who had already taken over the use of the Easy guns of the 3rd and 4th battalions, immediately skillfully loaded their ammunition, calculated the firing yuan, and calibrated the artillery. After a few moments, with two loud bangs, two twelve-pounder shells whistled and quickly flew over the battlefield, heading straight for their targets.

And the target of the shells is near Tushan, where the number of thieves is the most dense and the battlefield situation is the most critical!

You must know that at this time, Liu Quanzhong's troops had penetrated into the thief camp for one mile, and the thickness of the camp was several miles, and the effective firing range of the Xiaoyao Cannon was about five hundred steps, a little more than one and a half miles, and the maximum firing range could reach two to three miles. And this earthen hill is less than two miles away from the dirt mountain piled up by the thieves, and the thieves outside the dirt mountain are desperately attacking the city under the command of several thieves and generals.

These partial generals also knew that there were officers and soldiers outside, but Lao Huihui and others had already personally led the elite cavalry to meet the battle, and these people thought that even if they couldn't eliminate the reinforcements, at least the reinforcements would not be able to kill them. At this time, the battlefield was chaotic, Lao Huihui and the others only cared about the Tianxiong army that was pursuing Lu Xiangsheng, and He Yilong was defeated too quickly, so that these generals didn't know that Liu Quanzhong's troops had appeared behind them.

At this time, a partial general was rushing towards Tushan surrounded by dozens of personal soldiers, wanting to "take the lead" to boost morale, and suddenly heard an extremely sharp and piercing sound of breaking the sky from far and near. Before he could understand what was going on, a cannonball from a free cannon fell from the sky, and it happened to hit a personal soldier.

The kinetic energy of this cannonball was too great, and it completely shattered this unlucky guy in an instant. The remaining momentum of the cannonball continued unabated, and it crashed into the dense crowd again, smashing more than a dozen people one after another, and then stopped with a muffled sound embedded deep in the earth mountain. These people were not crushed, but wherever they were swept by the shells, their bones were broken and they immediately passed out.

The general was lucky not to be injured, but he didn't understand what was going on for a while. Why did his subordinates still charge after him just now, and they all lay down in the blink of an eye, and they were still torn apart?

It was only after a while that someone screamed in extreme horror: "Cannon! It's King Luyan's cannon! ”

The "cannon of King Luyan" had been widely circulated among the thieves before. The two great victories in Dangshan eliminated a large number of thieves, and artillery naturally played a major role. The thieves who escaped by luck depicted this kind of thing even more miraculously after they came back: this thing can be fired dozens of miles away, pointing and hitting wherever it is, and it is like a bamboo tube pouring beans endlessly; A single shot can kill hundreds of people, and the ground can be smashed into a big hole the size of a house...

In fact, how can the artillery of this era be so powerful, but this kind of false rumors has made the thieves' fear of artillery even heavier. The two loose cannons were only fired once, and the other cannon did not hurt anyone, in fact, there were only a dozen thieves killed and wounded. But the fear in the hearts of the thieves was enormous: they did not know where the cannons came from, nor how many cannons the officers and soldiers had. Maybe in the next second, this thing that can instantly turn a living person into a puddle of flesh and blood will fall on his head!

In such a situation, who has the heart to attack the city? The thief was the first to escape from the dirt mountain with his head in his hands, and the thieves below were all gone, and he was still standing here stupidly waiting for death, and he was also defeated.

There is a way that "the embankment of a thousand miles collapses in the anthill", this dirt mountain that was originally piled up by the thieves is a relatively complete encirclement, although the thieves have suffered heavy casualties in the siege of the city, but they can still fight to the death under the strict order. But suddenly one of the thieves retreated like a tide, and the rest of the place did not know what was going on. Most of the thieves who attacked the city were the ones who joined the gang later, and their combat effectiveness was already poor. So the offensive that was still very ferocious just now actually collapsed with the sound of these two cannons!

The defenders at the head of Yangzhou City, especially the Guanning Iron Cavalry, were clear and clear, and they immediately thundered with joy. In fact, the defenders have been exhausted to the extreme, and as long as the thieves continue to attack, they may be able to attack the city. The defeat of the thieves gave them an extremely precious opportunity to rest, and Shi Kefa immediately ordered people to beat the drums, and the war drums shook the sky, and all the defenders, including Tuan Yong and the guards army, felt tired and swept away, and their morale was greatly boosted!

On the side of the thieves, it was just the opposite, and they were inexplicably defeated, trampling and killing countless people in the chaos. Lao Huihui and the others originally led the cavalry to desperately chase Lu Xiangsheng, but when they saw that the siege force was suddenly defeated, they didn't know why, so they had to rein in their horses and ask.

When I finally figured it out, it turned out that the officers and soldiers only fired two shots to scare their subordinates, but they made the old man angry. He swung his sword and slashed several unlucky defeated soldiers in succession, and roared like madness: "You are not worthy to be Hu Da's believers! We have hundreds of thousands of people, Yangzhou City is about to be defeated, what are the officials and soldiers afraid of firing a few cannons! Continue the siege for me immediately, or I will be killed! ”

But Lao Hui is also confused, the thieves are not all his subordinates, let alone "Huihui", most of them are still Han. Of the few defeated soldiers he had just killed, only one was his subordinate "Huihui", and the rest were He Yilong's subordinates. At this time, He Yilong was not there, but several of his generals were there, and when he saw that Lao Huihui had blatantly murdered his own soldiers, he was furious. However, due to the large number of subordinates who returned to the old Hui, they did not dare to act rashly, so they had to press the sword and glare angrily at him.

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Ma Jinzhong was still calmer, and hurriedly persuaded Lao Hui to reply: "Now that we have just been defeated and our morale is low, we will return to attack the city immediately, I am afraid it will be difficult to succeed." It is a taboo for soldiers to suffer from the enemy on their backs, I will first concentrate my forces to eliminate King Lu Yan and other reinforcements, and then attack the city with peace of mind, anyway, Yangzhou City can't run..."

Not far after Keku, the back ball picked up the lonely enemy Kuxian, and the thief's side was just the opposite, inexplicably defeated, trampling in the chaos, and trampling countless casualties. Lao Huihui and the others originally led the cavalry to desperately chase Lu Xiangsheng, but when they saw that the siege force was suddenly defeated, they didn't know why, so they had to rein in their horses and ask.

Ma Jinzhong is also "Huihui", his face is still to be given, and this is not unreasonable, Lao Huihui had to nod hatefully. But what they don't know is that now it's not that they're going to destroy the reinforcements, it's the reinforcements that they're going to destroy them!